Education
Ph.D. Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
B.S. Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
Publications
Complete Cellulase System in the Marine Bacterium Saccharophagus degradans Strain 2-40T. Taylor LE, Henrissat B, Coutinho PM, Ekborg NA, Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM. J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3849-3861.
Genomic and proteomic analysis of the agarolytic system expressed by Saccharophagus degradans 2-40. Ekborg NA, Taylor LE, Longmire AG, Henrisatt B, Weiner RM, Hutcheson SW. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 3396-3405.
Family 6 Carbohydrate Binding Modules in beta-Agarases Display Exquisite Selectivity for the Non-Reducing Termini of Agarose Chains. Henshaw J, Horne A, van Bueren AL, Money V, Bolam DN, Czjzek M, Ekborg NA, Weiner R, Hutcheson SW, Davies GJ, Boraston AB, Gilbert HJ. J Biol Chem. 2006 Jun; 281(25):17099-107.
Saccharophagus degradans gen. nov., sp. nov., A versatile marine bacterial degrader of complex polysaccharides. Ekborg NA, Gonzales JM, Howard MB, Taylor LE , Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2005 Jul;55(Pt4):1545-9.
Identification and analysis of polyserine linker domains in prokaryotic proteins with emphasis on the marine bacterium "Microbulbifer degradans". Howard MB, Ekborg NA, Taylor LE, Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM. Protein Sci. 2004 May;13(5):1422-5.
Chitinase B of "Microbulbifer degradans" 2-40 contains two catalytic domains with different chitinolytic activities. Howard MB, Ekborg NA, Taylor LE 2nd, Weiner RM, Hutcheson SW. J Bacteriol. 2004 Mar;186(5):1297-303.
Detection and characterization of chitinases and other chitin-modifying enzymes. Howard MB, Ekborg NA, Weiner RM, Hutcheson SW, J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2003 Nov;30(11):627-35.
Genomic analysis and initial characterization of the chitinolytic system of Microbulbifer degradans strain 2-40. Howard MB, Ekborg NA, Taylor LE, Weiner RM, Hutcheson SW, 2003. J Bacteriol. Jun;185(11):3352-60.
Degradosomes: Potencial Importance in the Ocean's Carbon Cycle and in Aquaculture and Algalculture. Weiner RM, Taylor LE, Ekborg NA, and Whitehead LA, 2000. In Recent Advances in Marine Science and Technology, 2000: 259-268
Patents
Alginases, systems containing alginases and methods of cloning, purifying and/or utilizing alginases. Weiner; Ronald M.; Hutcheson; Steven W.; Abdel-Hafez; Ahmed Abdel-Wahab; Howard; Michael; Taylor; Larry Edmund II; Ekborg; Nathan A.; US patent application 20060128946, June 15, 2006.
Plant wall degradative compounds and systems. Taylor, Larry E; Weiner, Ronald M.; Hutcheson; Steven W; Ekborg; Nathan A.; Howard; Michael; US patent application 20060105914, May 18 2006.
